When America Was Great

There was a time when America didn't fuck around. If some shitty little country like Cuba or Guatemala or El Salvador or Nicaragua started getting uppity, we would put them in their place. Back when we we were great. If they started giving land to peasants or talking shit about us or calling us "imperialists" we'd just send in the troops and gunboats and put them in their place.If we took a shine to some nice island like Hawaii we just claimed it, because we were great. This is what history books should be teaching our children...no, wait, maybe not so much in those words. Frame it as liberation. Exactly as Russia's claims in Ukrain, these places were within our sphere of influence. So was Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. It's one big sphere, baby. The greater you are, the bigger your sphere. Because it was our Manifest Destiny as a great nation of great people we could march across a continent already occupied and claim it as our own. What's the point of being Great if you can't take what you want?